In a daring incident on a running train, armed criminals attacked a police escort team to free two hardened criminals in AP Express train between Mathura and Agra on Thursday night.
According to reports, the criminals attacked the police team escorting the two criminals --Harendra Rana and Vinesh-- involved in the murder of one Mohit Bharadwaj, who was an accused in the killing of a Samajwadi Party leader Shammi Kohli in October last year, when they were returning from Ghaziabad to Agra jail. The criminals equipped with sophisticated firearms attacked the police team near Farah railway station and escaped after freeing the escorted criminals. Six policemen --Pradeep Kumar, Dinesh, Vinod Sharma,Khalik Ahmed, Radheshyam and Rajesh-- escorted the criminals, of which five were injured.
A manhunt has been launched to nab the criminals while the injured cops were admitted in hospital at Agra.
Meanwhile a couple was found hanging from trees under mysterious conditions in Khairighat area of Bahraich on Friday morning. According to reports, Uma Shankar (32) and his wife Ramvati (30) of Samriya village were found hanging dead with separate trees. Prima-facie, police was suspecting it a suicide case, However family members alleged foulplay and claimed that both were killed and later hanged to make it a case of suicide. A case has been registered and bodies were sent for post-mortem examination.
In a separate incident reported from Pratapgarh, a couple was killed and their eight-year-old son critically injured when their motorcycle was crushed by a coal laden truck in Devsara area on Thursday night. Reports said that the couple, a native of lambua in Sultanpur, was identified as Dhruv Raj Verma(43) and Sunita (39) and they were returning from a marriage ceremony when the accident occured near Dhakva bazar. The truck also overturned after the incident and the driver fled from the scene. The injured son have been admitted to the hospital.
Meanwhile a family is sitting on an indefinite dharna in front of the District Magistrate (DM) office at Kansganj for the past five days demanding arrest of the accused involved in kidnapping and murder of their 3-year-old son. The family, including a 60-year-old man, was refusing to eat for the past five days but the district authorities were yet to take congizance of the agitation so far. According to reports, police after much pressure had registered an FIR against four people for kidnapping and then murdering a Ashish in September under Dolna police station area. An FIR under section 264,302,201 and 506 of the IPC were registered against four people identified as Geeta,Mahens Satya Prakash and Tiwari lal. But police was yet to arrest any of the four accused.